Hans-Georg Kluge

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Hans-Georg Kluge (born March 2, 1953 in Berlin ) is a German lawyer and university lecturer, former CDU local politician, former state secretary. D. and Richter a. D.

education and profession

After graduating from high school in 1973 in Bad Oeynhausen , Kluge studied law in Bielefeld , Cologne and Bonn . In addition to his work as a freelance journalist in politics, especially as a functionary of the CDU and for members of the Bundestag, Kluge worked as an administrative judge in Potsdam . He was the first research assistant at the constitutional court of the state of Brandenburg under its president Peter Macke . He is one of the two co-authors of the handbook, which was published in two editions on the procedure and selected decisions of this court. In 1998 he became a judge at the Brandenburg Higher Administrative Court . From 1999 to 2003 he was District Administrator of the East Westphalian district of Herford . He was the first to be directly elected, making him the first full-time district administrator in the district and therefore also the head of the district's administration. He received 47.77 percent of the valid votes in the first ballot and then won the runoff against the Social Democratic candidate. As district administrator of the Herford district, he was also head of the district police authority, chairman of the administrative board and the credit committee of the Sparkasse Herford. He was also a member of the board of the North Rhine-Westphalian district council, chairman of the economic initiative of the Herford district, chairman of the war graves welfare organization of the Herford district, chairman of the home association of the Herford district and the support association for the Herford city theater as well as a member of numerous other bodies.

In January 2003, he resigned prematurely as District Administrator and moved to the Brandenburg Ministry of Justice and European Affairs under Minister Barbara Richstein as State Secretary for Justice and State Secretary for Europe . His successor in the district office was Lieselore Curländer (CDU). At the end of 2004 he left the Brandenburg government at the same time as his minister. The background to this was the so-called Brandenburg separation money affair, which he considered insufficiently processed [2].

After retiring from active politics, Kluge worked in a law firm in Berlin with a focus on animal welfare law . His activity on the controversial shafts caused a stir . A trial at the Berlin State Labor Court also caused a stir. For the first time in German legal history, a discriminated Berliner and lawyer Kluge was able to use statistical methods to win a discrimination claim against a company that she had ignored during the promotion.

From the spring of 2005, Kluge, who had just started working as a lawyer in Berlin, led a project group on reducing bureaucracy on behalf of the first parliamentary director of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group, Norbert Röttgen , and in this role prepared and formulated the part of the coalition agreement relating to this issue just like the draft of the law "establishing a National Regulatory Control Council" that came into force in 2006.

Since the end of 2006, Kluge has been a lecturer at the Fachhochschule des Mittelstandes in Bielefeld, where he mainly deals with the topics of reducing bureaucracy and reducing bureaucracy costs. Since 2014, he has also headed the “Center for Sustainable Governance” together with Norbert Röttgen and Volker Wittberg, which develops models for the comprehensible measurability of state, municipal and corporate sustainability.

Since January 2015, Kluge, together with Norbert Röttgen, has been a founding partner of the law firm Röttgen & Kluge, which also includes the former Vice President of the Federal Administrative Court Michael Hund , the former State Secretary in the Federal Environment Ministry Jürgen Becker and Klaus Vorndamme, the long-time chairman of the Sparkasse Herford.

Kluge is an honorary citizen of the Šibenik-Knin County in Croatia, the recipient of the Medal of Honor of the French city of Voiron and the second highest order of the Republic of Nicaragua .

Several publications by Kluge have appeared, including the commentary on the Animal Welfare Act published by Kohlhammer-Verlag. In particular on animal protection law and the reduction of bureaucracy, he has also published various articles and regularly gives lectures on these and other topics. Meanwhile, another important focus is the processing of legal issues related to sustainability.

Kluge, who lives vegan, is an honorary board member of two animal welfare foundations in Berlin: the Erna Graff Foundation for Animal Welfare and the Albert Schweitzer Foundation for Our Environment .

literature

  • Hans-Georg Kluge (Ed.): Animal Welfare Act . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-17-015201-7 .
  • Hans-Georg Kluge; Boris Wolnicki: Constitutional Court of the State of Brandenburg . Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden 1999, ISBN 3-7890-6413-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ District Administrator found! Hans-Georg Kluge is the new district administrator!
  2. ↑ Iris Baar: The slaughter of sheep is on the knife edge. ( Memento from February 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 645 kB)
  3. ^ Sueddeutsche.de: Discrimination. 16 men and no woman. November 26, 2008. ( Memento of the original from June 2, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sueddeutsche.de
  4. ↑ Miriam Grabenheinrich: Reduction of bureaucracy in universities. 2007. Deutschlandfunk, February 7, 2007, accessed on March 29, 2017 .

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SURNAME Kluge, Hans-Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician (CDU)
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin